Pankaj Sharma

CTO

Gurugram, Haryana, India13 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led engineering team growth from 15 to 26 members.
Scaled lending operations significantly, increasing disbursals.
Expert in backend technologies across diverse domains.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with a strong focus on backend engineering and microservices.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProject ManagementTechnical LeadershipSoftware Architectural DesignDatabase Development

Other Skills

AWSAerospikeAlgorithmsAmazon DynamodbAmazon RedshiftAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)CCore JavaData StructuresDesign PatternsEhcacheElasticsearchEnterprise JavaBeans (EJB)GolangHibernate

About

Experienced engineering professional with over 13 years of expertise in backend technologies, spanning diverse domains such as travel, agriculture, telecom, and finance. Adept at designing and optimising high-performance, scalable systems while driving cost reduction and process efficiency. Proven leadership in managing a sixteen member team, excelling in project management, technical mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. Passionate about leveraging cutting-edge cloud, database, and messaging technologies to build resilient architectures. Currently seeking challenging managerial roles that foster organisational growth, provide opportunities to refine technical and leadership skills, and contribute to team development and industry recognition. Core Skills & Expertise: Programming: Java, Golang Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch Messaging & Streaming: RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS Caching: Memcached, Redis, Aerospike Frameworks: Spring, Gin Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS and related technologies Monitoring & Observability: Kibana, Grafana, MixPanel, HoneyBadger

Experience

13 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Balancehero india

AVP Engineering

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Leading engineering for Payments & Lending vertical, supporting large-scale lending operations and new growth initiatives.
Scaled engineering team from 15 to 26, building strong backend, platform, and data capabilities.
Enabled lending scale from ₹300 Cr to ₹550+ Cr through platform scalability and operational improvements.
Launched and scaled Lead Gen and LIP, growing Lead Gen disbursals from ₹3 Cr/month to ₹75 Cr/month.
Designed and delivered repayment and loan servicing systems, including foreclosure, penalties, co-lending, and Super Saver EMI.
Led adoption of LLM-based solutions for underwriting automation and engineering diagnostics.
Strengthened engineering processes, data governance, and IT controls, improving reliability, compliance, and execution speed.

PaymentsLendingTeam ManagementPlatform ScalabilityOperational ImprovementsEngineering Management+1

Dehaat

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Developed and scaled 6 microservices while overseeing a portfolio of 10 microservices. Led a team of 12 highly skilled professionals. Created and implemented solutions for discounting, payment gateways, transport management systems, eKYC, wallet, and user services. Enhanced chatbot functionality and optimized the notification system. Utilized a range of advanced tools and cutting-edge technologies. Successfully delivered multiple projects within strict deadlines, improved processes, and introduced cost-effective solutions.

MicroservicesTeam ManagementPayment GatewaysTransport Management SystemseKYCEngineering Management+1

Engineering Manager

Aug 2022 – Apr 2023 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Developed and scaled 6 microservices while overseeing a portfolio of 10 microservices. Led a team of 12 highly skilled professionals. Created and implemented solutions for discounting, payment gateways, transport management systems, eKYC, wallet, and user services. Enhanced chatbot functionality and optimized the notification system. Utilized a range of advanced tools and cutting-edge technologies. Successfully delivered multiple projects within strict deadlines, improved processes, and introduced cost-effective solutions.
Skills: Golang · Java · RabbitMQ · PostgreSQL · Redis · MongoDB · Team Management · Project

MicroservicesTeam ManagementPayment GatewaysTransport Management SystemseKYCEngineering Management+1

Makemytrip

2 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Aug 2022 · 7 mos

As a Principal Software Engineer at MakeMyTrip, I specialize in the Holiday vertical, delivering comprehensive travel solutions that minimize customer inconvenience. I led the integration of various components to ensure a seamless experience for our users. In this role, I handle end-to-end feature development, following the complete development lifecycle, while also mentoring a team of five skilled professionals. I am proficient in Java and Golang for developing solutions and utilise advanced technologies including Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, MongoDB, and MySQL. I also bring demonstrated expertise in AWS and the implementation of CI/CD pipelines.

JavaGolangKafkaElasticsearchRedisMongoDB+4

Lead Software Engineer

Aug 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Database Development

Freecharge

Lead Engineer

May 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Worked in cart, payment and oms system as Lead Engineer and mentored a team of 3 member. Developed end to end lifecycle of Gift card management and optimised three way reconciliation of merchant payments.

JavaAerospikeSpring FrameworkMySQLDatabase Development

Software ag

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

I served as a Senior Software Engineer at SoftwareAG (SAG), a product-based company known for its innovative solutions. Within SAG, my focus was on Agile Apps, a multi-tenant case management system. This product offers a cloud platform (aPaaS) for customers to develop and deploy their low-code applications.
My role involved both independent and collaborative development on various modules, addressing feature enhancements and change requests. I operated within specified sprints, receiving requirements from product managers and delivering development tasks accordingly. Additionally, I handled customer fix creation and patches, ensuring seamless integration for specific clients and cloud releases.
Primarily working with Java and REST API, our project relied on MySQL for persistence. Development tasks typically encompassed data structure implementations and algorithmic solutions.

JavaMicroservicesDatabase DevelopmentSoftware Architectural Design

Software Engineer ||

Apr 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr

JavaEhcacheMySQLAWS

Wipro

Software Engineer

Jan 2013 – Apr 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Greater Chennai Area

Worked in Master Card Data warehousing project in WIPRO. MASTERCARD is a financial service corporation based in NY, USA. MASTERCARD provide the secure and sophisticated transaction services to banking and finance domain around the world. The project basically deals with three basic cycles of transaction processing: Authorization, clearing and debit. The process includes validating the transaction, clearing the requested services to transaction members while debiting the amount to merchant. We have to maintain all these cycles’ data in warehouse in effective manner.